Fiyin Adesina

Since 2015, JUST Capital has surveyed more than 110,000 Americans on what they believe U.S. companies should prioritize most when it comes to just business behavior. Over the course of six years of polling, our work has shown that the American public believes that worker health and safety should be a key priority for companies, and in our Rankings, it is consistently among the core measures by which we evaluate companies.

While national conversations around racial justice and equity continue in the months since George Floyd’s death, JUST Capital, too, has been conducting nationally representative surveys of the American public on how they expect corporate America to step up during this time. We’ve found that Americans want companies to prioritize racial equity across all facets of their operations, addressing compensation, hiring, promotion, board representation, and local community relations.

Almost three quarters of the largest public school districts in America opened this year as remote learning only. (kawee/Adobe Images) A child care crisis was brewing long before COVID-19 struck the United States earlier this year. Before the pandemic, parents across the country were already faced with a child care market riddled with issues of availability, accessibility, and quality, and priced at an exorbitant cost.